From HK...

doesn't seem like anything special here eh? story behind this is that i bought 2 pairs of jeans at some store (a HK brand that i saw before in Shanghai during my travels during JET)...and the salesgirls told me b/c i bought 2 pairs i could get a t-shirt for "basically" nothing. it was like buy 3 things and get 20% off, so somehow if i bought the tshirt and got 20% off the entire purchase it'd be like getting the tshirt for free...i tried doing the math in my head and couldn't get it...so they pulled out a calculator and showed me...i still didn't really believe them...but whatever. =P

initially i couldn't find a tshirt i liked so i just asked them to give me some extra off the 2 pairs of jeans and leave it at that...but they said they couldn't (or wouldn't, who knows?) but yeah...that was the promotion and they said there was no changing it so i finally happened to spot this one.




look closely...
















yeeah, i like weird stuff.

Just because...

(Kyoto: Kawaramachi-dori - 1900yen)


yeah, i know what you're thinking...







this t-shirt pretty much sums up one of the important caveats one needs to remember in order to fully enjoy Japan. somtimes...it just doesn't matter why. logic is not always present, nor does it have to be. this doesn't seem to bother anyone, so why should it bother the gaijin? in most cases, it shouldn't (there are exceptions of course, but i won't get into that can of worms...), and a lot of the time it can even become a hindrance. it's sort of like how the Japanese like to turn their brains off (from working hard/hardly working) and get smashed at a nomi-kai once/a few times a week. why so serious??? right? works for me!

=P

As any teacher would say...

i believe most would agree with the above t-shirt saying...ii desu ne?






ahh, soka...sometimes eigo in Japan does make sense...ne?

(Shinsaibashi - 1900yen)